Photo: Ted Jacob, Calgary Herald
Source: Calgary Herald
ALBERTA - The man struck by a hit and run driver outside a strip bar has died, police say.
Shaun Robert Cook, 32, died in hospital after being slammed into Wednesday night as he was walking in the parking in the 3200 block of 32 St. N.E.
Police tracked the suspect driver of a silver Kia Sedona minivan down by following a trail of debris.
The victim was thrown nearly 5 metres and the van fled the scene without stopping. The victim's brother was present as well as other witnesses who called EMS and Police.
Police tracked suspects to a residence in the southwest community of Palliser hours later.
Charges are pending.
Source: Calgary Herald
Speeding van hits Calgary bar patron. Cops find suspect
ALBERTA - Calgary police were on the hunt Wednesday night for the driver of a minivan that careened through the parking lot of a northeast bar and hit a 32-year-old man, leaving the victim so injured police say it would be a "miracle" if he pulls through.
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The minivan took off from the scene of the crash, which happened around 7:15 p.m. Extra police resources were pulled in from other parts of the city to search for the vehicle and driver.
Duty inspector Rob Williams said the incident happened when the victim and his brother were walking across the parking lot of Big Easy, 3064 32nd Street N.E.
"These guys were travelling at an excessive rate of speed," Williams said, noting the minivan mounted a curb in the parking lot and struck the victim and a parked car.
There is good video surveillance from the bar of the men who were in the minivan, he said.
The video surveillance doesn't show any sort of altercation or communication between the two groups, Williams said.
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1 comments:
I wish reporters would start getting the language right as we're getting frustrated and tired with feeling obligated to edit their work (readers will notice that the word 'adapted' will appear after the source credit when we do).
Peter and I appreciate the effort it takes a reporter to write a story from a police media release (I often do it myself) and we appreciate that several news agencies don't complain that we feed their stories into this site.
But I have to say this about this story:
The minivan did not take off from the scene. The driver did. The minivan was his weapon of choice to commit this dastardly and cowardly crime.
I'm tried of reading "the car hit a pole", the "car veered towards the ditch", the "pickup crossed the center" line.
Vehicles are incapable of doing such things on their own and writing in this style continues the social practice where many believe it is vehicles that are dangerous or responsible for road deaths (the common outrage expressed is that cars should be sold with a speedometer incapable of speeds faster than 100 km/hr). Vehciles aren't accountable for the deaths and injuries on Canada's roads, not the people controlling the steering, braking and accelerating.
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